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Pick fiction or non-fiction, then a genre, then a topic inside it. A book can sit in more than one genre.

The full library classification — every book has exactly one, more granular than Genre. Different counts for a same-named bucket here vs. Genre reflect two different systems, not an error.

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Featured — award winners and classics first, when available. Use “Show different books” for a new selection.

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Rabbit hill

Robert Lawson

1944 ★ 4.5

Life of Pi

Yann Martel

2001 ★ 3.9

Watership Down

Richard Adams

1973 ★ 4.2

Tunnel in the sky

Robert A. Heinlein

1977 ★ 4.2

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

2006 ★ 3.9

The White Darkness

Geraldine McCaughrean

2006

Children of Time

Adrian Tchaikovsky

2016 ★ 4.2

The Bunker Diary

Kevin Brooks

2013 ★ 4.2

Uprooted

Naomi Novik

2015 ★ 4.2

Julie of the Wolves

Jean Craighead George

1972 ★ 4.5

Robinson Crusoe

Petrus Borel, N. C. Wyeth, Les éditions du Rey et al.

1686 ★ 3.9

White Fang

Jack London

1906 ★ 4.0

The Tempest

William Shakespeare

1778 ★ 3.9

World War Z

Max Brooks

2006 ★ 3.9

The Island of Dr. Moreau

H. G. Wells

1896 ★ 3.7

Spy camp

Stuart Gibbs

2007 ★ 4.4

Unsouled

Neal Shusterman

2013 ★ 3.0

Poppy

Avi

1995 ★ 3.9

Lights out

Ted Koppel

2015 ★ 3.7

The Walking Dead, Book Six

Robert Kirkman

2010 ★ 3.7

The Game-players of Titan

Philip K. Dick

1973 ★ 4.0

The Knowledge

Lewis Dartnell

2014 ★ 4.0

Save Rafe

Christopher Tebbetts, James Patterson

2014 ★ 4.8

Brian's Winter

Gary Paulsen

1996 ★ 4.4

I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916

Lauren Tarshis, Haus Studio, Scott Dawson et al.

2010 ★ 4.3

Among the Brave

Margaret Peterson Haddix

2004 ★ 4.5

The Empty City

Erin Hunter

2012 ★ 3.7

Darkwing

Kenneth Oppel, Keith Thompson

2007 ★ 4.0

Island

Aldous Huxley

1962 ★ 4.0

happy hour in hell

Tad Williams

2013 ★ 2.8

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Book Explorer lets readers browse the free, readable part of the Open Library catalogue by familiar genres, or by the exact subject tags Open Library assigns each book. Every book has its own page with a reader where one is available, plus links to Open Library, your library, Libby and Amazon.